X-Message-Number: 25803 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:44:18 -0800 (PST) From: Randall Burns <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #25791 - #25797-Re Gaining and Ally >I am the student director at the American Cryonics >Society yet I don't feel like I know them that well to >ask get them involved at a future time. >They would be a real asset to have as cryonics >progresses, i.e. endowment. The first thing I would consider: some kind of set of prizes for awards in areas of science key to cryonics. The awards could start out small-a few hundred dollars would draw in a lot of constestants. Now, the thing is that once someone has accepted money from an organization and proudly displayed that prize on ones CV it is hard at a later date to put these folks down. Here is a problem. Crynoics has a rep as a rich man's "thing". Ultimately, as budget became available, I'd suggest awarding a certain number of free cryonics passes to folks active in the scientific community. The simple fact is that lots of research scientists don't make that much money-but if some of the most respected ones were really identifying with cryonics, it might go a long way towards acceptence. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25803